Question

I have the code below, which produces this:

2012-07-28 17:30:23

Which is what I want. But if I want to extract all the numbers on their own to assign to variables, do I need to make a RegEx or is there some way to simply extract these from the SimpleDateFormat?

 SimpleDateFormat dateFormatUCT = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
 dateFormatUCT.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UCT"));

 //Time in UCT
 String date = dateFormatUCT.format(new Date());

 System.out.println(date);

Answer 1

You have a Date. Convert if to a GregorianCalendar, and ask every field to the GregorianCalendar:

GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UCT")); // or UTC?
cal.setTime(theDate); // if you want something other than the current date
int year = cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
int month = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1; // months start at 0, duh!
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